NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 260
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 07 March 2014
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 5 of 2014
Mr M Mnqasela (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
Which Home Affairs offices are in the process of receiving smart identity
cards and by what date will all Home Affairs offices be equipped to roll
out the new smart identity cards?
NW313E
REPLY:
The following thirty offices in nine provinces are in the process of
receiving smart identity
cards:-
|Province |Office Location |
|Western Cape |GEORGE |
| |CAPE TOWN |
| |WYNBERG |
|Gauteng |JOHANNESBURG |
| |PRETORIA |
| |SOWETO |
| |AKASIA |
|Free State |WELKOM |
| |KROONSTAD |
| |BLOEMFONTEIN |
|Limpopo |POLOKWANE-PIETERSBURG |
| |JANE FURSE |
| |TZANEEN |
| |GIYANI |
| |THOHOYANDOU |
|Mpumalanga |NELSPRUIT |
| |WITBANK |
| |MIDDELBURG |
|Northern Cape |KIMBERLEY |
| |UPINGTON |
| |KURUMAN |
|Province |Office Location |
|Eastern Cape |BISHO-KING WILLIAMS TOWN |
| |PORT ELIZABETH |
| |UMTATA |
|North West |KLERKSDORP |
| |RUSTENBURG |
| |POTCHEFSTROOM |
|Kwa-Zulu Natal |DURBAN |
| |PIETERMARITZBURG |
| |MTUBATUBA |
The roll-out plan for smart identity cards is being done in a phased
approach over a period of time. Seventy offices are planned for the
2013/2014 financial year and a further seventy offices during the 2014/2015
financial year.